Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and FunctionCriticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and language are seen as interrelated that the structure of Shakespeare's dramatic art emerges as fully functional, that is, as part of a larger, and not only literary, whole.' |
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Page 123
... light , To that haughty light which is struggling to usurp The ancient rank and realm of its mother Night , And yet has no success , try as it will , Being bound and clamped by bodies still . ( trans . Louise Macneice ) While he does ...
... light , To that haughty light which is struggling to usurp The ancient rank and realm of its mother Night , And yet has no success , try as it will , Being bound and clamped by bodies still . ( trans . Louise Macneice ) While he does ...
Page 153
... light , the Dionysian laughter of the Vice has a truly dis- turbing undertone which almost explains the hostile polemics that were soon to be unleashed against the frivolous antics of actors , such as Stubbes ' indignation at " those ...
... light , the Dionysian laughter of the Vice has a truly dis- turbing undertone which almost explains the hostile polemics that were soon to be unleashed against the frivolous antics of actors , such as Stubbes ' indignation at " those ...
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... light of the social and cultural synthesis that characterized the highly transitional balance of class forces in the late Tudor period . No longer based on a corporate social structure ( like the German Shrovetide play or the Parisian ...
... light of the social and cultural synthesis that characterized the highly transitional balance of class forces in the late Tudor period . No longer based on a corporate social structure ( like the German Shrovetide play or the Parisian ...
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Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social ... Robert Weimann No preview available - 1987 |
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